ISMB-97 Organization ORGANIZING COMMITTEE DesHiggins, University College, Cork, Ireland Rick Lathrop,University of California, Irvine, USA Terry Gaasterland, ArgonneNational Laboratory and Thomas Lengauer, GMD-SCAI,Germany Departmentof ComputerScience, University of Chicago, USA Claudine Medigue,Curie Institute, France Peter Karp, AI Center, SRI International and Section on Aleksandar Milosavljevic, CuraGenCorporation, USA MedicalInformatics, Stanford University, USA Satoru Miyano,University of Tokyo, Japan KevinKarplus, ComputerEngineering, University of Christine Orengo,University College, London, California, Santa Cruz, USA United Kingdom Christos Ouzounis, EMBL EuropeanBioinformatics Institute, Chris Overton, University of Pennsylvania, USA United Kingdom Chris Rawlings, SmithKline Beecham, United Kingdom Chris Sander, EMBLHeidelberg, Germanyand EMBL Otto Ritter, DKFZHeidelberg, Germany EuropeanBioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom Burkhard Rost, EMBL,Germany AlfonsoValencia, CentroNational de Biotechnologia- CSIC, Steven Salzberg, Johns HopkinsUniversity, USA Spain David Searls, SmithKline Beecham,USA Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin, USA ManfredSippl, University of Salzburg, Austria David States, WashingtonUniversity, USA Gary Stormo, University of Colorado, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Joel Sussman,BrookhavenNational Laboratory, USA Russ Altman, Stanford University, USA and Weizmann Institute, Israel KiyoshiAsai, ElectrotechnicalLaboratory,Japan Willie Taylor, NationalInstitute for MedicalResearch, Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridgeand EMBL-EBL United Kingdom United Kingdom Anna Tramontano, IRBM, Italy MarkBorodovsky,GeorgiaInstitute of Technology, USA Soren Brunak,Centre for Biological SequenceAnalysis, Denmark DouglasBruflag, Stanford University, USA Barbara Bryant, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, USA DominicClark, Glaxo Wellcome PLC, United Kingdom ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS AntoineDanchin, Pasteur Institute, France Additional reviewing assistance was provided by Lloyd AlliTrevor Dix, MonashUniversity, Australia son, T. Akutsu,Vineet Bafna, HenrikBohr, Alvis Brazma,Mdissa Jacquelyn Fetrow, University atAlbany, USA Cline, DavidL. Dowe,VicenteEscalier, RichardFerrante, David TomFlores, EMBL EuropeanBioinformatics Institute, Ficenec,JamesFickett, Leslie Grate, I. Hansen,I. Hein,A.S.KoUnited Kingdom laskar, DaweiLin, A. Lukashin,O. Maruyama, S. Miyano,Craig BobFutrelle, NortheasternUniversity, USA Nevi]l-Manning,Jan Pedersen, EduardoRocha,Scott Schmidler, WarrenGish, WashingtonUniversity’, USA Jeanette Schmidt,A. Shinohara,T. Shoudai,AmitPal Singh, Evan Janice Glasgow,QueensUniversity, Canada W.Steeg, YutakaUeno,and ThomasWu. Nathan Goodman,Jackson Laboratory, USA DavidHaussler, University’ qf California, SantaCruz, USA ix .. . ............... ... ................. . ................... . .................... . .................. . .............................